Swaggering

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Swagger \Swag"ger\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Swaggered}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Swaggering}.] [Freq. of swag.]
     1. To walk with a swaying motion; hence, to walk and act in a
        pompous, consequential manner.
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              A man who swaggers about London clubs.
                                                    --Beaconsfield.
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     2. To boast or brag noisily; to be ostentatiously proud or
        vainglorious; to bluster; to bully.
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              What a pleasant it is . . . to swagger at the bar!
                                                    --Arbuthnot.
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              To be great is not . . . to swagger at our footmen.
                                                    --Colier.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  swaggering
       adj 1: having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of
              those one views as unworthy; "some economists are
              disdainful of their colleagues in other social
              disciplines"; "haughty aristocrats"; "his lordly
              manners were offensive"; "walked with a prideful
              swagger"; "very sniffy about breaches of etiquette";
              "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air";
              "shaggy supercilious camels"; "a more swaggering mood
              than usual"- W.L.Shirer [syn: {disdainful}, {haughty},
               {lordly}, {prideful}, {sniffy}, {supercilious}]
       2: flamboyantly adventurous [syn: {swashbuckling}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  33 Moby Thesaurus words for "swaggering":
     aweless, barefaced, blustering, blusterous, blustery, boisterous,
     bold, bold as brass, boldfaced, brassy, brazen, brazenfaced,
     bullying, hectoring, lost to shame, noisy, peacockish, peacocky,
     raging, ranting, raving, roistering, roisterous, rollicking,
     shameless, storming, strutting, swashbucklering, swashbuckling,
     swashing, tumultuous, unabashed, unblushing